Spesmilo

Spesmilo

The Spesmilo (IPA2|spesmilo) is an obsolete decimal international currency, proposed in 1907 by René de Saussure and used before the First World War by a few British and Swiss banks, primarily the "Ĉekbanko esperantista".

The "spesmilo" was equivalent to one thousand "spesoj", and worth 0.733 grams of gold, which at the time was about one-half United States dollar, one Russian ruble, or 2½ Swiss francs.

The basic unit, the "speso" (from Latin "spes", "hope". "spesmilo" is Esperanto for "a thousand of spesoj"), was purposely made very small to avoid fractions.

The Spesmilo sign

The "Sm" character, called "Spesmilsigno" in Esperanto, is a monogram of a cursive capital "S", from the tail of which emerges an "m". [ [http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3390.pdf Proposal to encode the Esperanto SPESMILO SIGN in the UCS, by Michael Everson] ] The currency sign is often typeset as the separate letters "Sm". [ [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usns.info%2Fpdf%2FAust_Coin_%26_Banknote_USNS_002_092005.pdf&ei=ohdbR-umMJKcepK3hawJ&usg=AFQjCNGUZGp0BKYBSCaJRtbcwGW_u3wkbQ&sig2=61Skn_mVUnNrlomO8M5sOQ Esperanto and the Dream of a World Currency] ] The character has been assigned the Unicode codepoint U+20B7 [ [http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html Proposed New Characters - Pipeline Table ] ] and was approved for eventual inclusion in Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. [ [http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/04/whats-new-in-unicode-52.html BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 5.2?] ]

ee also

* The "stelo" was another currency unit used by the "Universala Ligo" from 1942 to the 1990s.

References

External links

* [http://www.eventoj.hu/arkivo/eve-050.htm "Streboj al internacia mono"] eo icon
* [http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/Esperanto.html Images of Stelo coins]
* [http://www.usns.info/pdf/Aust_Coin_&_Banknote_USNS_002_092005.pdf ACBN Article about Esperanto coins]


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